I love carrot cake but I have not found a good recipe for one.  My mother is a great cook and I was visiting her the other day and asked her if she had one.  I was in luck because it just so happened that she had a bit of a trick to getting her carrot cake to turn out so well.  She mentioned to me that one of her recipe ingredients was Aspen Mulling Spices.  This is what gave it a spice flavor that I was so eagerly desired.  Well I went home after our visit at attempt her recipe it goes as follows:

Mix in a bowl:

3 eggs

1 ½ cup of EVOO

1lb of brown sugar

2 cups of diced carrots

1 small can of crushed pineapple and juice

2 table spoons of vanilla

3 cups of flower

Dash of salt

1 tsb of baking soda

1 tsb of baking pwder

¼ cup of Aspen Mulling spices

Bake @ 350 for 35 mins

It turned out wonderful, I finally have a carrot cake recipe that I can be proud of and the not so secret trick turned out to be in the spice. Who knew?